Malls, hospitals, plazas, hotels and even government buildings in Gurgaon are likely to come under the dragnet of renewable energy department, which has made it mandatory for them to carry out an energy audit that will curb exceeded power consumption.

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said India's energy demand would quadruple in the next couple of decades and exhorted stakeholders in the power sector to make electricity cheaper for the common man.

OIL AND GAS

The LPG bottling plant set up by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) on the direction of former Union finance minister and Hazaribag MP Yashwant Sinha at Chano under Baheri panchayat of Hazaribag Sadar block now faces a major hurdle.

Oil prices fell one percent on Monday as signs of a strong recovery in US oil drilling activity outweighed news that OPEC and non-OPEC producers were on track to meet output reduction goals set in December.